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London Film Festival program boss Rowan Woods is to take on the Creative Director post at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Woods is replacing the outgoing Stewart Clarke, while One World Media Director Gemma Bradshaw becomes Programmes Director at the TV Foundation, the charity which owns the Edinburgh TV…

UK director George Amponsah's thriller Gassed Up has won the London Film Festival (LFF) Audience Award for Best Feature in the 67th edition running from October 4 to 15, as the event also posts record participation. Further Audiences Award winners, which were announced on Monday, went to The Taste of…

There's a soaring ambition but only a modest intent in Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya's sober debut The Kitchen, a visually impressive depiction of things to come that simmers with all manner of protest but never hits boiling point. On the one hand, it's a…

Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi has clinched the best film award in the main official competition of the 67th London Film Festival with his latest feature, Evil Does Not Exist.  The enigmatic pic is Hamaguchi's follow-up to the Oscar-winning Drive My Car and follows young father Takumi and his…

By any metric, 23 years is a long time to wait for a sequel to Chicken Run, even when you factor in the fiendishly slow gestation of Aardman Animations' meticulous stop-motion process. Surprisingly, it still feels fresh, not just because of the spring-clean of the core voice cast — Mel Gibson being the…

Dear Jassi arrives with echoes of Madonna's 1989 hit "Dear Jessie" and its sugary promise of pink elephants and lemonade, but none of that turns out to be forthcoming in Tarsem Singh Dhandwar's beautiful and brutal sixth feature. Instead, we have perhaps the most disturbing bait-and-switch since George…

The first week of the British Film Institute's (BFI) London Film Festival wrapped this evening with a rapturous onstage Q&A session with writer-director Greta Gerwig. To the surprise of the packed crowd at BFI Southbank, Gerwig was joined onstage by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, who moderated…

"Theatres and streamers need to coexist," Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts, concluded during a keynote this morning in London when quizzed on his opinions about the future of cinema.    "For our Academy," he continued, "the theatrical experience is extremely important. We just…

EXCLUSIVE: Executive Producer Dani Melia describes how "a scrappy team" that made filmmaker Lulu Wang's acclaimed low-budget feature The Farewell joined forces with Blossom Films' Nicole Kidman and Per Saari to make "this big international production" Expats for Prime Video. Melia tells me how she…

“A lot of very impressive people have led this festival and what connects them is a love for movies and culture and what that can achieve,” Kristy Matheson told Deadline of her new job as Director of the British Film Institute's London Film Festival. "That has left a great stamp on this festival, and…

The Oscar Meter at Deadline is working overtime as the race for the 96th Academy Awards is shifting into higher gear as summer turns to fall this weekend. The official start of the very long six month+ awards season is now behind us as we made it…

The BFI London Film Festival has unveiled the full lineup for its revamped "Industry Forum," which will feature keynote sessions with Jennifer Lee, chief creative officer of Disney Animation Studios, and Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts (AMPAS). Lee will headline what the BFI…